April 09, 2021 A UNIVERSITY of the Philippines (UP) engineer and a De La Salle University (DLSU) researcher have invented a coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine queue calculator to help Filipinos “see if the national vaccination plan is being followed.”
“As the Philippines begins its Covid-19 vaccinations. a question still lingers in millions of minds like mine – How far in the queue am I? I tried searching for an answer but ended up building a tool that calculates it instead,” said Kenneth Alambra, a civil engineer from the UP-Los Baños.
“Since there are around 110 million people in the Philippines, not everybody can get vaccinated immediately. It raises a whole load of new questions: Who will be first in the queue to get the vaccine? When are you likely to be offered it? How far are we away from the finish line?” he asked.
When the Philippines officially launched the rollout of the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) vaccination program early this month, one of the first questions that linger in the minds of many Filipinos is how far will he or she be in the queue to receive the jabs?
The much-awaited vaccination drive against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) finally started in the Philippines this week, after over a year of facing the pandemic which caused more than 12,000 casualties and plunged the country's economic growth.